David Sedaris Live For Your Listenin..., David Sedaris
David Sedaris Live For Your Listenin..., David Sedaris
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David Sedaris: Live For Your Listening Pleasure

Author: David Sedaris

Narrator: David Sedaris

Unabridged: 1 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/24/2009

Categories: Nonfiction, Humor


Synopsis

If you were lucky enough to have caught a performance on David Sedaris's most recent sold-out, 34-city tour, you already know that David Sedaris Live For Your Listening Pleasure is a must-have album! If you didn't hear it live and in person, then you're in for a treat-hilarious brand-new recordings from performances in Denver, New York, Durham, LA, and Atlanta, in one convenient audiobook collection, on sale November 24 for only $17.98.

From the bold feral rabbits of his French backyard to the eating habits of a carnivorous bird Down Under, Live For Your Listening Pleasure takes listeners on a veritable tour of natural wonders, beginning with a fable, "Cat and Baboon," and moving on to the peculiarly American habitat of the "big-box" store.

"Sedaris's sparkling essays always shimmer more brightly when read aloud by the author. And his expert timing, mimicry and droll asides are never more polished than during live performances in front of an audience." Publishers Weekly, Starred Review - When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Track Listing:

1: Cat and Baboon (Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre in Denver, Colorado)

2-5: Author, Author (Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City)

6-8: Innocence Abroad (Durham Performing Arts Center, in Durham, North Carolina)

9-13 Laugh, Kookaburra (Royce Hall, UCLA in Los Angeles, California)

14-16: Diary Entries (Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, Georgia)


About David Sedaris

American comedian, David Sedaris, decided to put his good humor and social critiques to pen and has we authored several books and short essays that slice through cultural inadequacies and political correctness. He has been deemed a master of satire and an expert observer of the current human condition. He was born in 1956, and has many titles......humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor. He gives credit to radio host, Ira Glass, for discovering him in a Chicago club and giving him the invaluable opportunity to appear on his weekly radio program. He said it was life changing.

One of his most important accomplishments would be receiving a Grammy nomination for his audio version of, Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls. There are over ten million copies of his books, and they have been translated into 25 languages.

In collaboration with his sister, Amy Sedaris, David has written six plays that have been produced at such places as LA Mama, Lincoln Center, and The Drama Department in New York City. Three have been nominated for Grammys for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. A recent work is David Sedaris: Live for Your Listening Pleasure. He has also had a film adaptation of his story C. O.G., which was presented at Sundance Film Festival. The various books about him and by him are numerous. Calypso, a book of essays, was punished in 2018, and a second volume of diaries is expected in summer of 2019.

His older Santaland Diaries was a huge success for listeners, so much so, that the New York Times dubbed him "a minor phenomenon".


Reviews

Goodreads review by Melanie on May 10, 2023

I enjoy David Sedaris and this is him doing not a reading but a live performance. If you like him you will enjoy - if you don't you won't. I did use it to introduce my mom to him, and I'm not sure if she enjoyed. How did this book find me? I'm a Sedaris fan.......more

Goodreads review by Perri on December 10, 2018

This is only available in audio , of course, but it's a good reminder why I love to hear Sedaris read his own material. His dry delivery, just makes his material all the more funny. I had to shut it off a few times because I was laughing so hard. I can see why it would offend some listeners, but I l......more

Goodreads review by Valerie on March 19, 2024

David Sedaris is one of my favorites to listen to ever. He spurs my creativity. I dreamt I met him last night on an Austrian Airline flight to Vienna. 🤪......more